- How to operate the online-dictionary: You can look for
key-words in either
- We are already working on a feature that will enable you to look up wordclasses. Coming up soon!
- SPELLING: The Online Dictionary gives you the results matching your query in the following form:
The column Hausaa uses the long form or scientific notation. Here the following features of the language are marked:
- Long vowels by reduplication of the vowel: aa, ee, ...
- Implosives and ejectives by ´ consonant+acute: k´, b´, d´
This spelling is used only for technical reasons that have to do with our database format.
- The glottal stop before the /y/ by ´ acute+semivowel: ´y
This spelling is used only for technical reasons that have to do with our database format.
- High tone is not marked
- Low tone is marked by i.e. à grave: à, àà, è, èè, ò, ...
- Falling tone is marked by âa circonflex on the first vowel: âa, âu, ôo, ...
- The two /r/s of Hausaa are distinguished through the presence or absence of full stop: r. signifies the retroflex flap; r signifies the coronal roll.
- We do hope for an abundance of contributions from our colleagues!! Please send them to us using the page for contributions. On the contributions page you will find the following columns::
- Boko: Here you can enter the word/words/phrase exactly how you found or heard it/them.
- Hausaa: Please enter the word using the rules for scientific notation given above.
- German: Please enter the translation of the Hausa word/words/phrase.
- English: Please enter the translation of the Hausa word/words/phrase.
- Wordclass: Please enter it the way you found it in your source.
- Wordform: Here you can enter data like plural forms, or if a verb is obligatorily used with "dà", etc.
- Origin: Historically speaking - if it is a genuine Hausaa word just enter "0". Else use the following abbreviations: ar = Arabic, f = French, ful = Fulfuld´e, gb= English, kats = Katsina, sok = Sokoto, ...
- Please remember to fill in your address or name. They will be written into a list of contributors specifying the entry you gave us. That list can be viewed online on the list of contributors. THANK YOU!
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